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CPS 2020
AND
2016/17 PLAN
Delivering justice
Our duty is to prosecute the right
CPS 2020 people for the right offences. The
DELIVERING JUSTICE CPS works with our partners at the
heart of the criminal justice system to
protect the public and create a safe
society.
We will be independent and fair
and will deliver justice in every case,
acting professionally and striving for
excellence. We will treat people with
respect and will be honest and open
about our work.
THE STORY SO FAR
REDUCED EXPENDITURE STEADY CONVICTIONS
£101 83%
reduction in net Conviction
SAVINGS AND
EFFICIENCIES DELIVERED
AFTER SIGNIFICANT CUTS
LOWER HEADCOUNT
£ annual expenditure
MILLION since 2011/12
rate remains
steady around
DELIVERING JOINED
UP JUSTICE ACROSS
AREA BOUNDARIES
GUILTY PLEAS
27% 76%
fewer staff guilty pleas up
than in from 69% in
2011/12 2011/12
EFFICIENT OPERATING CROWN COURT CASES
through digitisation, Better Caseload in Crown Court
Case Management and remains steady at 96,000 -
Transforming Summary Justice 101,000 cases per annum
PROCEEDS OF CRIME MAGISTRATES CASES
£84 36%
put back into reduction in
public funds in magistrates
MILLION 2015/16 court caseload
AN EVER CHANGING STEADY CONVICTION RATE,
CASELOAD AS WE SHIFTING CASELOAD SERIOUS AND COMPLEX RISING GUILTY PLEAS AND
ADAPT TO AN EVOLVING
28% 23%
STREAMLINED CASELOADS BY
5 year increase 5 year increase
in sexual
CRIME ENVIRONMENT BRINGING THE RIGHT CASES
in fraud and
offence cases forgery cases
AND WORKING BETTER WITH
OUR PARTNERSDELIVERING JUSTICE OUR VALUES Our new strategic priorities reflect our commitment to being a flexible, trusted prosecution service. That commitment is underpinned by our existing values: • Treat everyone with respect • Be independent and fair • Be honest and open • Behave professionally and strive for excellence
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
DELIVERING JUSTICE BY ENSURING
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE THAT WE ARE
FAIR, EFFECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT
Our decisions will be open and
transparent, and the public will trust that
we are fair and deliver justice. We will:
• Positively influence the criminal justice landscape
and deliver justice with our partners.
• Provide a professional service to everyone we
work with.
• Treat victims and witnesses with respect and
care, and respond to their individual needs.
• Be open, listen, explain our decisions and learn
from our successes and our mistakes.
• Anticipate and adapt to new and emerging
criminal trends.
• Work with and learn from communities to build
confidence in the criminal justice system.
• Create engaging campaigns that explain our
work.
• Develop effective policies and guidance that
reflect changes in society.
• Deal promptly and thoroughly with enquiries and
complaints.SUCCESS OF OUR PEOPLE
DELIVERING JUSTICE BY SUPPORTING
THE SUCCESS OF OUR PEOPLE
We will attract the best people and be
recognised for our investment in staff,
training and skills. We will:
• Behave according to our values, creating a
culture of respect where it’s safe to speak up.
• Nurture and grow our talent, offering everyone a
clear path for career development.
• Empower leaders to foster a culture of learning
where everyone takes responsibility for their own
development, and progression is based on merit.
• Broaden our expertise by supporting career
moves in and out of the CPS, and between
teams.
• Equip our people with the skills to excel in a
changing environment.
• Support social mobility, and invest in
apprenticeships, scholarships, legal and
professional training.
• Set high expectations for individual performance,
and be clear how this is managed.
• Develop a diverse workforce that reflects the
society we serve.HIGH QUALITY CASEWORK
DELIVERING JUSTICE WITH EVERYONE
CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH QUALITY
CASEWORK
We will deliver justice through excellent,
timely legal decision-making, casework
preparation and presentation. We will:
• Give early advice to investigators so that the
right cases progress, or are quickly stopped.
• Take the right decisions, treating every case fairly
and equally, and bringing the correct charges
according to the evidence and the Code for
Crown Prosecutors.
• Deliver swifter justice through timely case
preparation, encouraging appropriate early
guilty pleas.
• Build and progress strong cases.
• Provide first class advocacy in every case.
• Build effective partnerships, nationally and
internationally, to ensure excellence across the
criminal justice system and to prevent harm to
the UK.CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING
DELIVERING JUSTICE BY
CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING HOW
WE WORK
We will continue to digitise and modernise
the way we work, supporting a flexible
workforce and delivering swifter justice,
fewer hearings and more effective trials.
We will:
• Look forward, identifying opportunities to reform
and improve.
• Work flexibly across geographic boundaries to
drive up quality across the CPS.
• Rapidly redeploy resources to respond to
changing crime patterns.
• Co-create a shared, digital system that works for
all partners in the criminal justice system.
• Design new ways of working informed by the
expertise of our frontline staff.
• Invest in our IT, giving people the tools they
need to do their best, wherever they work.
• Adapt business processes that support efficiency
and cut bureaucracy.THE PUBLIC HAS CONFIDENCE THAT THE CPS IS
FAIR, EFFECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT
WE WILL: MEASURED BY:
2016/17 PLAN
• Treat victims and witnesses with respect and care and respond to
their individual needs.
LESS THAN
unsuccessful outcomes due to
• Enhance our complaints performance management systems to ensure
they are dealt with promptly and thoroughly. 25% witness issues
• Identify and share best practice in domestic abuse prosecutions,
including the new offence of controlling or coercive behaviour.
• Develop capability of Witness Care Units to meet the planned MORE THAN
55%
Victim’s Law and related reforms. of hate crime sentence uplifts
recorded in finalised convictions
• Improve the instance, quality and timeliness of letters issued to
victims explaining our decision to stop a case or substantially alter
charges.
• Develop effective policies and guidance that reflect changes in
society, such as delivering against the cross-government hate crime
LESS THAN of complaints escalated to stages 2 &
strategy.
16% 3 before resolution
• Ensure that all RASSO cases are reviewed and presented in court by
a specialist trained sexual offences prosecutor.
• Create an engagement plan and resource hub of materials for
schools, colleges and universities.
FEWER THAN RASSO* cases waiting more than
• Develop more proactive campaigns like #ConsentIs.
250 28 days for pre-charge advice or
decision
• Conduct stakeholder mapping to identify how best to measure
confidence. *Rape and serious sexual offencesMEASURED BY:
WE SUPPORT THE SUCCESS OF OUR PEOPLE
MORE THAN
55%
employee engagement index from
People Survey
WE WILL:
2016/17 PLAN
• Nurture and grow our talent, offering everyone a clear path for
career development.
MORE THAN
apprenticeships to meet Civil Service
• Broaden our expertise by supporting career moves in and out of the
organisation.
2.3% ambition for social mobility
• Support social mobility by investing in apprenticeships, scholarships,
legal and professional training.
• Increase workforce flexibility and resilience by moving more work to MORE THAN
250
where our people are located. internal and external secondments
supporting workforce mobility
• Improve the experience of working at the CPS through a continued
focus on employee engagement and wellbeing.
• Invest in the skills of our workforce and ensure effective evaluation of
learning and development.
WITHIN
• Set high expectations for individual performance and be clear how
this is managed. 4% vacancies against the resource plan
MORE THAN increase in full-time equivalent
33% people managing out-of-Area cases
supporting resource flexibilityEVERYONE IN THE CPS CONTRIBUTES TO HIGH MEASURED BY:
QUALITY CASEWORK
MORE THAN
compliance with judicial orders in the
90% Crown Court
WE WILL:
2016/17 PLAN
• Give early advice to investigators so that the right cases progress and
others are quickly stopped.
LESS THAN
cracked or ineffective trial rate due to
• Take the right decisions, treating every case fairly and equally, and
bringing the correct charges according to the evidence and the Code
10% prosecution reasons in Crown Court
for Crown Prosecutors.
• Deliver swifter justice through timely case preparation that builds and
progresses strong cases and encouraging appropriate early guilty
pleas. MORE THAN
• Build effective partnerships, nationally and internationally, to ensure £84.2
MILLION
recovered from proceeds of crime
excellence across the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and maximise the
recovery of proceeds of crime.
• Develop a new advocacy strategy to ensure our advocates are able
to meet changing demands and that we provide first class advocacy
in every case. LESS THAN cracked or ineffective trial rate
• Embed ‘Better Case Management’ to ensure fewer hearings in Crown 18% due to prosecution reasons in
magistrates’ courts
Court cases and improved engagement from all parties.
• Utilise the trends from Individual Quality Assessments to help better
identify themes and inform how we can improve.
FEWER THAN hearings on average per guilty plea
1.75 case in magistrates’ courtsWE WILL CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THE WAY
WE WORK
WE WILL: MEASURED BY:
2016/17 PLAN
• Develop capability to respond to and meet challenges of HMCTS
Court Reform programme.
MORE THAN
• Invest in technology, giving people the tools they need to do their availability of core business
best, wherever they work. 95.5% infrastructure through resilient IT
• Explore alternative ways to deliver a better integrated charging
service to police and other investigators.
• The CJS Common Platform will have deployed its first applications to
test cross-agency digital justice. MORE THAN
remote access service users
• Develop an IT strategy to complement and support multi-agency
4500 supported by smarter working
initiatives.
• Co-create a shared, digital system that works for all partners in the
CJS.
MORE THAN reduced cost of paper purchased
5%
• Design new ways of working informed by the expertise of our own and couriers used through digital
people and develop new ways to support this, such as People working
OF £3.3M
Impact Assessments and satisfaction surveys.
• Employ tight financial management that ensures we make full and
best use of available funding.
WITHIN
of agreed operating funding
1% limitsAbout the Crown Prosecution Service
The CPS is responsible for prosecuting most cases heard in the
criminal courts in England and Wales. It is led by the Director
of Public Prosecutions and acts independently on criminal
cases investigated by the police and other agencies. The CPS is
responsible for deciding the appropriate charge in more serious
or complex cases and provides information, assistance and
support to victims and witnesses.
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